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Dennis Black

<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>C A V E A T · L E C T O R</strong><br><br>Why are you here?&nbsp; This is the most secluded spot on th'entire web.<br>How did you get here?&nbsp; Just got lost?&nbsp; No·one gets so lost as that.<br>Right, so then . . . how did I get here?<br><br>I did not intend to write.&nbsp; The stories came to me, and wouldn't go away.<br>So I wrote them down, just to get them out of my head.&nbsp; Only, they grew,<br>extended to ever·greater distance, time, effect and text.<br><br>The plot is too complex, the characters too numerous, the concepts<br>too disparate, the presentation too outré, for any but a tiny fraction<br>of readers to follow.&nbsp; Publication was never a consideration,<br>let·alone mass·marketing.<br><br>How·ever, having come this far, I should at·least make it available.<br>Too expensive to print it, due to th'extensive incorporation of color.<br>So .epub it is, or rather .xhtml served up in .epub shackles.<br><br>It all takes place in the future, but not the one we were expecting.<br>When we think of the future, we think of the present but more·so.<br>And when we think of the past, do we think of the present but less·so?<br>No, because we can see that history is crook·ed, not straight, not linear.<br>The future will be crook·ed too, for a while.&nbsp; Eventually we'll break it,<br>already in progress.&nbsp; Then what?<br><br>Hint:&nbsp; If you're looking for dystopia, go read the news, this aint it.<br><br>The present is so vain, assumes the future will imitate it.&nbsp; This future<br>does not resemble the present.&nbsp; This is the future that the present<br>never wanted, while precluding all others.&nbsp; But it's big, many·faceted.<br>Every·one can find some·thing in it to admire, some·thing to detest.<br><br>That's my excuse.&nbsp; What's yours?&nbsp; Why are you here?&nbsp; Please be advised<br>that by entering, you risk exposure to non·standard thought.<br><br>